Mission

The CLCS will engage all children by using the Learning Through Music Curriculum model to ensure every child's academic, creative, and social success, as validated by qualitative and quantitative measures.

Guiding Principles of "Learning Through Music"

I.  "The Five Processes" originate from the study of music, and serve as essential procedures for teaching and learning in all disciplines

     1.  Listening and making distinctions

     2.  Questioning or formulating and investigating significant 

          questions.

     3.  Creating or inventing multiple solutions to programs.

     4.  Performing and interpreting information accurately and fairly.

     5.  Reflecting, personalizing learning by making learning relevant

          to one's daily life and community.

II.  "Shared Fundamental Concepts"

CLCS makes conscious use of Fundamental Concepts shared between music and traditional academic disciplines to strengthen learning across the curriculum, achieved through planning and implementation.

III.  "Music as a Core-Academic Discipline"

Music is taught as a daily, core subject.

     1.  A complete education includes thorough training in one or more domains of the arts.

     2.  Competency in musical performance assists in the development of poise, confidence, and prevention skills.

     3.  Multiple literacies reinforce one another; the ability to decode and internally hear music from musical notation helps

          fluency of language and numerical literacies.